Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D16, 1999, Pages 19443-19461

  Takle, Eugene S ^a   Gutowski Jr , William J ^a   Arritt, Raymond W ^a   Pan, Zaitao ^a   Anderson, Christopher J ^a   Ramos Da Silva, Renato ^a   Caya, Daniel ^b   Chen, Shyh Chin ^c   Giorgi, F ^d   Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg ^e   Hong, Song You ^f   Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^f   Katzfey, Jack ^g   Lapenta, William M ^h   Laprise, Rene ^b   Liston, Glen E ⁱ   Lopez, Philippe ^e   McGregor, John ^g   Pielke Sr , Roger A ⁱ   Roads, John O ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0008073785     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD900352     Document Type: Article

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